Penrhynmaur Railway, Anglesey; a colliery line, seven miles long, consisting of a series of inclined planes.
Boats doing the cross-country journey, or passing between Birmingham and the coast, would have to overcome such heights as these by means of locks, lifts or inclined planes.
These aids are chiefly of three types, namely, inclined planes, friction reducers, and levers.
A windmill consists of a series of inclined planes, each of which forms one of the radii of a circle, or spokes of a wheel, to the axle of which a gearing is adjusted by which the power generated is utilized.
Diodorus Siculus tells us that the great pyramids of Egypt were constructed with the aid of inclined planes, based on a foundation of earth piled about the pyramids.
All of these implements, it will be observed, consist essentially of inclined planes, adapted for piercing relatively soft tissues of wood or flesh, and hence serving purposes of the greatest practical utility.
Perhaps the best representative model of a flying machine on the principles of inclined planes, was that of Mr. Stringfellow, exhibited in London, in 1868, and which occasionally could rise.
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